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Official in charge of energy loan program steps down

By doris | Published: October 12, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com Republicans drew some political blood Thursday from the Obama administration Thursday when the embattled head of a loan program at the Department of Energy that oversaw a loan to Solyndra stepped down from that position. Jonathan Silver, the executive director of the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, stepped down from that [...]

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Do falling gas prices spell recession?

By doris | Published: May 20, 2011

Full Story atFinance.Fortune.cnn.com Sick of high energy prices? You may soon have more relief than you’d like. After two commodity price spikes in four years, $100-a-barrel crude and $4-a-gallon gasoline are starting to seem like the new normal — the price we pay, unhappily enough, for an expanding economy. Every twitch in the Middle East [...]

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No move yet in Congress to curb nuclear incentives

By doris | Published: March 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Worries about nuclear power plant safety reached Capitol Hill Wednesday as senators questioned the nation’s top nuclear regulator about whether his agency was doing enough to avert a Fukushima-type disaster in the united States. “I’m looking to you for more leadership than I’ve gotten,” Senate Energy and Public Works [...]

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Fears mounting over U.S. nuclear plants

By doris | Published: March 15, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Just two months ago, California residents living near a controversial nuclear power plant grilled nuclear regulators over the reactor’s safety at a public hearing. At issue was the 2008 discovery of a previously unknown earthquake fault located less than a half mile off shore from the plant. “Can [...]

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Way cleared for tax cut bill; energy breaks added

By doris | Published: December 10, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The White House and key lawmakers in both parties cleared the way Thursday night for swift Senate action to avert a Jan. 1 spike in income taxes for most Americans, agreeing to renew expiring breaks for ethanol and other forms of alternative energy. Tax provisions aimed at increasing production [...]

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The New Revolutionaries

By doris | Published: July 5, 2010

Full Story at Newsweek.com It’s not just the 4th of July holiday that’s raising memories of revolution. The idea of active anti-government resistance, once the province of the fringe or a mere historical parable, is now a common component of the national discourse. If all the voices actively calling for or raising the specter of [...]

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White House defends part-time Gulf recovery chief

By doris | Published: June 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Can the man who President Obama has tapped to formulate a long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan work only part-time on such a monumental effort? Some environmental groups say no way and are suggesting that Ray Mabus should give up his post of Navy secretary to focus on the [...]

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BP chief to testify to uncertainty of efforts to stop oil leak

By doris | Published: June 17, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com What I would like to know is why they didn’t start to have some kind of plan in case this oil spill happened. Just now they are trying to do thing about it and don’t know what to do. With all the money they make you would think they should have tried [...]

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Obama: End dependence on fossil fuels

By doris | Published: June 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Seizing on a disastrous oil spill to advance a cause, President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil and pass a clean-energy bill that he says would help the nation end its dependence on fossil fuels. Obama predicted [...]

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Obama clamps down on offshore drilling

By doris | Published: May 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — President Obama is applying the brakes, at least temporarily, to expansion of offshore oil drilling. Obama is delaying oil exploration off the coast of Alaska, canceling the sale of a lease to drill off Virginia and extending the moratorium on permits to drill any new deepwater wells for [...]

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Top senators introduce comprehensive energy bill

By doris | Published: May 13, 2010

Full Story at PoliticalTicker.Blogs.CNN.com Washington (CNN) – Two leading senators on Wednesday introduced a sweeping energy and climate change bill intended to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while reshaping the energy sector for the 21st century. Sens. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, and Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who sits with the Democratic caucus, said the [...]

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Obama tours, praises ethanol plant

By doris | Published: April 29, 2010

Full Story atpoliticalticker.CNN.com Macon, Missouri (CNN) – President Barack Obama donned a hard hat and goggles Wednesday to tour an ethanol plant in Missouri, then touted biofuel production and other alternative energy sources to free the United States from dependence on foreign oil. On the second day of his two-day swing through Iowa, Missouri and [...]

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